Brenton Dowell, a bodybuilder from Australia, was caught possessing and importing great quantities of anabolic steroids in March 2011. It was defined that these steroids could be sufficient to be applied for over 60 years by one user. Numerous people thought that this bodybuilder would be sentenced to imprisonment. But Dowell avoided imprisonment successfully.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service noted that Brenton Dowell had attempted to import more than 3 kg of testosterone powder. The packages that contained the raw testosterone powder were mailed in September, October and November 2011. They were directed to 3 different places: to the home of Dowell, to his father and his stepfather.
Actually, such large quantities of raw testosterone powder could be ordered just for manufacture of anabolic steroids by underground labs in order to sell them on the black market. 3 kg of raw steroid powder could be utilized for getting of 1500 10-ml vials with ready medicines.
Len Hartnett, the defense attorney for Brenton Dowell, argued that the steroid powder had been ordered for his client’s self-administration. He added that Dowell’s usage of steroids was caused by bullying attacks that he received, when he was an overweight kid. So, according to the defense attorney, Brenton Dowell became addicted to bodybuilding and started to utilize steroids because he was an overweight kid.
The judge Graeme Hicks was impressed by words of the defense attorney Len Harnett who described experiences of Dowell in his childhood. The judge noticed that it could be concluded that Brenton Dowell had become obsessed by bodybuilding.
Thus, the judge believed the arguments of Len Harnett. Based on the descriptions and affirmations of the defense attorney, the judge Graeme Hicks concluded that the bodybuilder Brenton Dowell had purchased steroids personal intake and for sales to his friends in order to pay off personal administration.
The bodybuilder Brenton Dowell was sentenced to a fine of 10, 000 dollars and probation of two years.
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